Accession No
1948.1495 D
Description
Two fragments from an iron knife with a slight angular choil and shoulder. The blade has a straight cutting edge and thick blade back. The tang is thick and broken at both ends. The tip of the blade is also broken. Thread tied around the blade.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Little Wilbraham; Streetway Hill
Period
Anglo Saxon
Source
Neville, Richard Cornwallis (4th Lord Braybrooke) [excavator]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1948.1495 D
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Iron
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Catalogue card: 'in cremation pot with various inhumations.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (Field collection)
Excavated in 1851.
Event Date 1851
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Context (References)
Neville, Richard C. (1852). Saxon Obsequies: Illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons Discovered by the Hon. RC Neville, in a Cemetery Near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, During the Autumn of 1851. J. Murray.
Event Date 1852
Author: Louise Puckett
Description (CMS Description)
A long knife
Event Date 8/9/1986
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Two fragments from an iron knife with a slight angular choil and shoulder. The blade has a straight cutting edge and thick blade back. The tang is thick and broken at both ends. The tip of the blade is also broken. Thread tied around the blade.
Event Date 14/12/2020
Author: Louise Puckett
FM:8935
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